{"id":765,"date":"2016-12-19T19:39:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T00:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/?p=765"},"modified":"2016-12-19T19:39:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T00:39:30","slug":"pinhole-research-december-chill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2016\/12\/pinhole-research-december-chill\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinhole research – December chill"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently started up again with some explorations in digital pinhole photography<\/strong>. \u00a0How this works is: you take a digital SLR, take off the lens and replace it with a modified body cap that serves as the ‘pinhole.’ \u00a0(I don’t recall where I purchased the pinhole cap, but if you Google ‘digital pinhole – Nikon<\/strong>‘ you’ll probably find it quickly). \u00a0Your camera needs to be sophisticated enough to have all manual settings — and most importantly, the ability to manually hold the shutter open — it’s called ‘bulb’ on my Nikon.<\/p>\n

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My old Nikon D-60 equipped with a pinhole body cap I found somewhere on the Internet. The cap is just an ordinary body cap with a hole drilled in it, covered with some film with a tiny transparent\u00a0spot in the middle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shooting pinhole is a very different experience, and I imagine it is closer to what the earliest photographers experienced. \u00a0It requires patience and a great deal of practice.<\/p>\n

One difficulty is that I can’t really get a good view through the viewfinder of what the shot is going to be. \u00a0It takes some practice to aim the camera body in the right direction. \u00a0Since the shutter needs to be open for a good 5, 10, 15, 20 seconds or more, one needs to be really immobile (a tripod or monopod helps).<\/p>\n

Digital pinhole also suffers from the problem of dust on the sensor:<\/strong> something that wouldn’t normally happen with film pinhole technology, since each frame of film is virgin. \u00a0The digital ‘film’, i.e., the sensor, is hardly a virgin, as it gets used over and over again, and my Nikon is pretty filthy at this point. \u00a0Photoshop is a huge help at this juncture!<\/p>\n

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Prospect Park, December 2016. Digital pinhole photograph, liberally cleaned up and tweaked in Photoshop and Lightroom. A fun, ‘painterly’ process, but entirely digital.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shooting this way is a [potentially] meditative experience. \u00a0In a recent outing, I came up with a number of really interesting shots that I can then liberally work with in Lightroom and Photoshop — it really brings photography closer to painting — and for me, provides fascinating subject matter for oil paintings I want to realize. (See Lifeworld<\/a> series). \u00a0So this pinhole outing is a form of visual research<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Below are a series of abstract detail shots that were all created from the full image shown above.<\/p>\n

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Pinhole zoom-crop experiment number 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pinhole zoom-crop experiment #2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pinhole zoom-crop experiment #3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pinhole zoom-crop experiment #4.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Which of these should I use for a painting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently started up again with some explorations in digital pinhole photography. \u00a0How this works is: you take a digital SLR, take off the lens and replace it with a modified body cap that serves as the ‘pinhole.’ \u00a0(I don’t recall where I purchased the pinhole cap, but if you Google ‘digital pinhole – Nikon‘ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,51,16],"tags":[7,39,103,10,19,52,94,110,22,64,104],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-photography","category-studio-notes","tag-art","tag-brooklyn","tag-december","tag-johnazelvandre","tag-landscape","tag-photography","tag-pinhole","tag-prospect-park","tag-studionotes","tag-trees","tag-winter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zpKF-cl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":729,"url":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2016\/12\/for-the-time-being\/","url_meta":{"origin":765,"position":0},"title":"For the time-being …","author":"John Azelvandre","date":"December 9, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Because you think your time or your being is not truth, you believe that the sixteen-foot golden body is not you. 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